Antinuclear

Urgent need for Australians to wake up to nuclear “spin”

You must hand it to the Australian nuclear lobby. Frontmen Ziggy Switkowski, Barry Brook, Michael Angwin are crisscrossing the continent – bolstering the nuclear industry to selected forums of stuffed shirts.

Uranium companies – Paladin, Cameco, Toro – touting their wares, even as uranium shares plummet.

Feverish negotiating is going on to bribe  Aboriginals to lease their land for uranium mining.

But to me – the big danger at the moment is the way in which the media allows the subtle downplay of the Japanese nuclear crisis.  And more – this focus on Fukushima not being so bad -( indeed a stimulus for the nuclear industry?) – this focus is obscuring an important current trend:

As you will see, from items below –  as nuclear stagnates, renewable energy is forging ahead.

April 15, 2011 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Christina reviews